fold one's tent



fold one's tent

Quietly depart, as in It's late, so let's fold our tents. This term is a partial quotation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Day is Done" (1844): "And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And quietly steal away."
See also: fold, tent

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
JustusYUWS-tuws (German), JUS-təs (English)German, Dutch, Late Roman
ChipCHIPEnglish
Blagoj-Macedonian
StefciaSTEF-chahPolish
Rade-Serbian, Croatian
Manonma-NAWN (French)French, Dutch